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The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1887-11-16


There was $50, 900 fire at Littleton, \. II.
O'Brien and Vaudeville will bring suits
for damages for illegal arrest.
The court has ordered the case OF Lord
Mayor Sullivan OF Dublin back to DO ro-
heard.
Disastrous forest fires hava been raging
for week in Union Williamson and Jack
son counties, Ill.
Governor Ames of Massachusetts, has is
sued his Thanksgiving proclamation. The
date is the 24th
An unknown man was run over and
killed by the cars at the Boston a Maine
station in Boston.
DR.. McCosh has rendered his resignation
president of Princeton college to the
board of trustees
The Seaside institute, built by Warner
Bros OF Bridgeport, Conn, for their work
ing girls, was formally opened.
Wool growers and wooden manufacturers
are making arrangements for a conferences
on a revision Of the wool tariff.
Mayor Russell OF Cambridge, Mass. has
consented to be a candidate for reelection
at the coming municipal contest.
Dr. Mackenzie admits that the growth in
the crown princes throat is a cancer, and
says an operation would be useless and
dangerous
Members of the British peace deputation
reached Boston and were entertained by
the Commercial club at the VendoIne.
Many prominent men were present and
made speeches
Saturday, Nov. 12.
70, fha nj
but 2l7.
The cotton market has recovered its nor
NAL condition.
The physicians disagree concerning the
case OF the crown prince
Unofficial returns from every county in
Ohio give Foraker net plurality of a.
1853.
The presidency of Princston university
said TO lie between DR.. Patton and Profes
sor Sloan.
The British cabinet resolved to tighten its
grip on ireland by employing additiona
coercive measures,
The schooner Mystic was wrecked at
Newcastle n H., on Thursday night, and
two sailors persisted.
Harry Garfield, son of the late President
Garfield, is attending lectures OIL law and
political science at Oxford university.
Tho Matin Of Paris says that tho EN-
press of Germany has had an attack OF
apopexy which has partly paralyzed her.
Rev. DR.. r. s. Storrs has accepted the
presidency OF the American Board OF
Foreign Missions of the Congregations
church
Billy Frazier tn n s. that Mike DAILY of
Bangor, Me-, is tn, coming lightweight
champion, He says DAILY is tho stiifest
hitter he ever met
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1887-11-16

| don't want any one to
think for a moment that |
am not to have the finest
line of art and holiday
goods this Christmas that
it has ever been my pleas
ure to show to the people
of Somerset county. | am
getting ready as fast as
possible, while Mr.. h. S.
Dutton, the experienced
druggist, is looking after
my prescriptions and drug
business. Look out for
this spot in the REPORTER,
as | shall have something
fresh to tell you in every
issue.
Yours till Christmas,
GEORGE Cushing,
81 Water Street.
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BOSTON MARKETS
Flour and Grain.

BosToN. Nov. ID.
FLOUR-Winter wheat straight and roller 81
to so; spring patents 81 70 to 80. Cornmeal 81
q bag.
CORN-57 to SOC
OATS-Choice 80 to 4o1Sc
The above prices are for car lots.
Provisions.
PORK-Prime mess SIC so. Hams l0lS to lie.
FRESH BEEF-Choice steers ~ to IL a pound
MUTTON-Spring lambs TO &c. Brighton nut
ton 6hc.
Farm Produce.
BUTTER-Western extra fresh creamery 200
to &c: fresh imitation choice 70 to 2lo Vermont
dairy now " to 24c.
E6GS-Eastern fresh &c.
CHEESE-Northern 121<c.
POULTRY-Northern fresh fowls 12 to $50
POTATOES-vermont rose &c per bush.
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STATE NEWS.

Hon. +. +. Webb of Wateryille Moses
Giddings, esq, of Bangor Rev. DIR. Jo-
seph Kicker IF Augusta, Hon. A. A. Bur
leigh and c. = Tenncy, building commit
tee of Wording Hall met at Iloulton on
"Wednesday, and made further arrange
mcnts for the completion Of the building.
The contract to do the steam heating was
let for $1,000. The building is rooted in,
The southern part of Maine got its
first taste of winter, Friday, Aroostook
and the lake region have seen snow be-
fore this fall. At Island Pond, Vermont,
sleighs were out Friday, and the Athens
stage came into Skowhegan on runners.
Athens had a foot and half of snow.
Streaked Mountain had six inches Of
snow Saturday morning, and Sumner hill
four inches.
Ezekiel T. Wclch, the Maine Central
hagman who was run down by the cars
at Brunswick, two weeks ago last Mon
day, died early Thursday morning.
The peddler's cart of Jacob Goldman of
Lewiston was robbed while in the barn of
Ernest Bragg at North Auburn Saturday
night of $500 worth of jewelry and al
buns. Arrests have been made.
Albert Chaplin was appointed post
master at Monson, Piscataquis county,
Monday, vice Chas. NJ, Coombs, resign
ed.
The friends of Jacob Stern of Bangor,
fear he is the man who committed suicide,
Saturday, at Fredericksburg, Virginia,
They have forwarded his portrait.
Governor Bodwell, of Maine, was in
the corridors of the Fifth Avenue Hotel,
New York, when reporter asked him if
he was looking for a reporter.
mot bit of it" laughed the Cover
nor "Those are the men want to
avoid Why they poster the life out of a
man in public Office"
"You were quoted in a morning paper
as saying you thought the New York
election foreshadowed Mr. Blaine's elcc-
tom"
ais that 50? Well, was not inter.
viewed and wrote no letter or despatch
on that subject, 1t is about true, though
that the result in New York leaves nc
doubt of Mr.. Blaines nomination. He is
stronger than any one else"
And you will not be interviewed?
mot for hundred dollars line.
am going to charge you young fellow,
that hereafter.
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Ever shown in Somerset Co.

Ranges and Cook Stores Coal Stores.
Dining Room Stores, Wood
Heaters Boz Stores, etc.
Three Cool Secondhand Ranges.
Ttco GOOD Second hand Cook
Stores, Heaters, ETC., etc, Good
Secondhand Wood Furnaces at a
Bargain
~ Don't Buy Stove until you
have looked our stock over, we can
suit you in Style and Quality and
Price.
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A Democratic protectionist, after two
years of observation abroad, writes to tht
New York Tribune that he is thoroughly
convinced that the policy of protection to
American labor Is the true policy for this
country, and he points to the fact that
one person in every thirty-eght Of the
population of Great Britain is pauper
while such Of the laboring classes as are
employed can scarcely keep body and
soul together on their starvation wages
-UIiU
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Good Advice.


Let every man in Maine thinging of
moving West look before he leaps. From
the frying-pan in to the fire is not wise
choice. Don't 90 until you know where
you are to locate and what you are to do.
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WEAK LUNGS, SPLITTING of
BLOOD, and the early stage Of
CONSUMPTION should use
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-10-07
BEER NOT NUTRITIOUS.
Popular Idea Exploded by Scientific
Tests and Experiments.

Tests and Experiments.
Prof III. A. Hare. M. D., of the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania, has recently
been subjecting to scientific tests the
popular idea that beer is an. aid to di-
gestion. 1t has long been supposed by
many that the; lighter forms of alco-
holic liquors, Particularly the various
forms. of beer,g areaansaid' to digestion.
The experiments made, however, very
clearly shoY,' that beer distinctly re-
tards both salivary and gastric diges-
ton. This was true with reference to
every specimen of beer examined, some
seventeen in. all. In more than two
thirds of the specimens of beer ex-
amined the stomach digestion was de-
layed considerably more than one
hour, and in some instances the delay
was nearly two hours. Some recent
experiments made by Prof. Duggan, of
Baltimore, at the Johns Hopkins Uni
versity, show that alcohol in all it's
forms retards the digestion of starch
very marked degree. These two
sets of experiments together show very
conclusively that beer retards the di-
gestion in consequence of the alcohol
which it contains. When it is consid-
cred tina the nutritive value Of beer is
so exceedingly small that whole hogs
head contains no more actual nutri-
ment than single loaf of bread, it
will at once appear that the popular
faith in beer as an aid to digestion or
to nutrition has no foundation what
ever Good Health.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-10-07
Reforming Mine Employees.

In. no, place probably is there so
large a percentage of saloons as in the
average mining towns. Two things
tend to cause this largely: the great
percentage of foreign miners and the
depicting influences of hard labor be-
meath the surface in damp and impure
air. THE hard labor, the bad atmos-
phere and the steady work in water of
damp mines cause the miner to feel
much worn on his arrival at the sur
face, and the inclination to partake of
stimulants is very strong, while its eff
fects are only transitory as to any good
derived, and its evil effects are lasting.
Bank bosses are by no means few who
do all in their power to prevent the
use of such stimulants where possible,
and many of them are outspoken in
their belief in its detriment to the best
interests of the men and the company.
Certain German mine proprietors now
furnish coffee and bread to the miners
when they come to the surface, and in
crease the pay of the miners who do
not touch liquor for the month, and
the results are said to be excellent to
the men and to the companies. The
movement lately begun in Pittsburgh
in the interest of temperance, amor g
others by one of the most prominent
coal operators, w. P. Rend, Chicago,
goes to show that these facts are be-
ginning to be realized by operators
and employees. The Coal Mirror.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-10-07
CHEAP OIL PAINTINGS.
How They are Dashed OF in New York
Picture Galleries.

How They are Dashed OF in New York
Picture Galleries.
"See that picture yonder?" asked a
local art dealer of reporter, point
ing in the direction of big landscape
surrounded by snowy frame. 1T
took just thirty-six minutes to paint it.
How was it doneP I'll tell you. So
far as l know there are no places in
Philadelphia where this class of work
is done, but in New York dozens Of
men make good livings painting such
pictures by the yard. The work is
simple, A piece of canvas nearly a
hundred feet long is stretched in gall
lery shaped like a corridor. On the
picture under notice, which, by the
way, you can have for 81. so, frame and
all, five men were employed. Each
man had his particular line. One
man put in the foreground, another
the background, and still another
did the clouds and cows that you see
browsing in the pasture. A fourth man
did the trees and shrubbery. In this
way they were enabled to work fast.
In exactly three hours five of these
landscapes were finished. which is
thirty-six minutes time given to each.
The fifth man did the finishing touches,
and, perhaps, performed more and bet
ter work than any of the others"
Are all cheap pictures painted in
the same wayP" the reporter asked.
Nearly all. Occasionally a fairly
good artist will become hard up, and
during these times he viii sell the pro-
duets of his brush for almost nothing.
Never buy the oil paintings that are
pedded about the streets by men who
say they are artists. You will only get
left. The frames on all those that you
see on the wall are worth double the
amount Of the pictures themselves. o,
yes, there's some money in this BUSH
ness, but not so much as formerly. -
Philadelphia Times.
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EVCTIONS IN IOWA,
British Syndicates Resort to Extreme
Measures to Drive Out Settlers.

British Syndicates Resort to Extrema
Measures to Drive Out Settlers.
New YORK, Oct ga Washington special
says: The General Land Office is in re-
ceipt of information that British syndi-
cate, which is said to have purchased a
large tract of land in Iowa from the Nc
GregOr Western Railroad Company, is
mercilessly evicting settlers, the title to the
land being in dispute in the State courts.
A settler writes:
Woman over 50 years Of age, sick in bed,
have been taken by six men and carried out.
into the driving storm. Delicate women have.
had their hands tied with cords till their aesh
was bruised and then dragged shrieking from
their homes. Children have been born prema-
turely at sight of the band of eVictors. Strong
men have been run down by rufflans on horse
back and then handcuffed and dragged from
their little possessions. I might go on and
multiply instances where the sheriff, with a,
writ of ejectment in one hand and a British
contract in the other, gave these poor people
their choice between these two evils, which
they would take"
Affidavits of the cruelties practiced are
being collected, says this writer, for use at,
Washington next Winter, and will be read
in both houses of Congress They are ex-
pected to create O sensation when the peo-
pie of the East are brought fully to realize
what the native American pioneers are suf-
fering at the hands of the new invaders.
WASHINGTON, Oct 5.-The interior Depart
ment has no official information regarding
the alleged cTuelties to Iowa settlers by
British syndicates.
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to keep the breath of life in him as long
as money might be forthcoming. FL
nally, believing him about dead, and
that all resources of profit had been ex-
hausted, they added mental torture to
his misery by assuring him that his
friends had refused to pay any thing
for lis ransom, and, crowding him
under the plank again, they left him to
die at leisure. 1t happened that very
night that a heavy storm came up, and
a beggar entered the deserted dwelling
for shelter, by chance seating himself
upon the board under which Ceryantes
lay. Hearing faint moaning, APP
parently proceeding from the lower re-
gions, the fellow was frightened nearly
to death, believing that it came from
some ghost and he ran straightway to
the nearest priest. Strangely enough,
in this lazy country, where supersti-
tious fancies arc of common occur
renee, search was instituted, and what
remained of poor Cervantes was res
cued--not an hour too soon.
A few months later a rich old man
disappeared insmuch the same manner.
Search was instituted and diligently
kept up for long time, but not the
slightest trace OF him was found. The
usual placards demanding money for
his ransom were posted again and
again, sometimes accompanied ly the
most piteous appeals purporting to
come from the victim himself, but
though the family were anxious to give
any amount for his release they were
not permitted to do so, the govern
ment having determined to put stop
to the kidnapping business, which could
only be done by destroying the in
centive. Long afterward, through the
confession of dying ranchero to his
priest, the fate of the old man was dis
closed. For several months his alb
ductors had kept him, gagged and
bound, hidden in a deep, dry we'll
Every night they hauled him up, fed
him enough to sustain life, and tortured
him in every diabolical manner they
could conceive without making an end
of him " order TO make him devise
some means by which they could wiring
money from his friends. AS time wore
on and no money came, their fiendish
rage knew no bounds, and they de-
lighted in tormenting him to the ut
most limit of human endurance. They
bHrned his flesh with heated irons, tore
the nails from his fingers and toes, dug
out his eyes, pulled his tongue with
pinchers, and finally tortured him to
death.
The dying ranchero's story was sub
stantiated by the searching of the spot
indicated-in a vacant field near the
Viga canal, few miles from the City
of Mexico-and in the bottom of the
long disused and forgotten we'll was
found the skeleton. -Mertco Letter IN
Philadelphia Record.
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--------------~e . -
RELIABLE TESTIMONY.
The Use of Alcohol in Exposure to Cold
Condemned by Authorities.

The Use of Alcohol in Exposure to Cold
Condemned by Authorities.
Where men are subject to great and
prolonged exposure to cold, experience
has taught them the danger of taking
spirits while the exposure continues.
My friend DR.. Fayer told me that when
crawling through the wet heather in
pursuit of deer on cold day he offered
the keeper who accompanied him a
pull from his flask. The old man de-
clined, saying: "No, thank you, it is
too cold" The lumberers in Canada
who are engaged in telling timber in
the pine forests, living there all win
ter, sleeping in holes dug in the snow
and lying on spruce branches covered
with buffalo robes, allow no spirits in
their camp, and destroy any
that may be found there. The
experience of Arctic travellers on
this subject is nearly unanimous;
and owe to my friend DR.. Miner
Fothergill an anecdote which illus
trates it in very striking way. A
party of Americans crossing the Sierra
Nevada encamped at a spot above the
snow line, and in an exposed situa-
ton. Some of them took good deal
of spirits before going to sleep, and
they lay down warm and happy; some
took a moderate quantity, and they
lay down somewhat but not very cold;
others took none at all, and they lay
down very cold and miserable. Next
morning, however, those who had
taken no spirits got up feeling quite
well, those who had taken little got
up feeling cold and wretched, and
those who had taken good deal did
not get UP at all; they had persisted
from cold during the night. Those
who took no alcohol kept their heart
warm at the expense OF their skin, and
they remained we'll; those who took
too much warmed their skin at the
expense of their heart and they died. =
LGatder Bratntom in Theological JOzr-
nal.
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TEMPERANCE ITEMS.


A sURPLUs of saloons is the worst
surplus we suffer from. IN Y 7rib.
ane
THERE was not a single arrest for
drunkenness in the Shetland Isles last
year.
NORWAY has $50 total abstinence
societies with a membership of $4,000.
The idea is spreading.
MANY man has ruined his oversight
by sitting in the bar-room looking for
work. Kansas Record.
IT is stated that seventy-fve thous-
and gallons of analine dye were
shipped into California in 1886, and
We're used in adulter.ting the wines
made in the State.
IT is told that an Indian, on being
reminded of the weakness of his race
for whisky replied that although
Indians would drink it they were never
bad enough to make it Galveston
Neacs.
HE address on medicine, and the
recent meeting of the British Medical
Association, was delivered by Prof. w.
|. Gardner, of the University of Glas-
gov. One of the points touched upon
was the use of alcohol in fever. He
said the conclusion had been reached
that alcoholic stimulants were not the
only form, or The best form of alimen-
tation in such cases, but that milk was
in reality the food which is generally
more easily digested, and more con-
duciye to success than almost any 9th
er.-M T. Ledger.
TWENTY-FIVE years ago John Grun-
dy, of Philadelphia, was one of the
most expert and prosperous of the mar
bic cutters of that city. Then he went
into politics, was successful, and was
elected alderman for several terms.
Then he took. to drinking, lost his of
flee and his employment, and became
rag-picker, and his wife was a rag
sorter until she became blind and went
to the poor-house. The other day he
staggered into his garnet with whis-
ky bottle, and four days later his dead
and decomposed body was found lying
on the bed where he had died. NJ y
SIM
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TEMPERANCE READING.
TEMPERANCE SONG.

Touch Not.
will not touch the sparkling cup,
Though dazzling bright it seem;
It's hopes are April's changeful day,
Delusive as its beam.
Taste Not.
viii not taste the rosy draught,
'Twould health and peace destroy;
The sweeter rills from Gods own hills
VIII satisfy my JOY.
Smell Not.
will not smell the blighting flower,
It's scent shall never be
A soothing balm to cheer my heart:
Twould sorrow bring to me.
Handle Not.
Tt as neither touch nor taste will I,
ar smell nor handle ever,
Twt1ld steer the barque of youthful life
To- aims fatal r yer.
james Patterson, tn Union Sional
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THE ANARCHISTS.
Their Friends Working Hard for Re-
prieVe.


prieve.
CHICAGO, Oct 81 s. Oliver, president
Of the Amnesty Association, which has
charge of the petitions in behalf of the con-
demned Anarchists to Governor Oglesby, said
yesterday that the work of the association is
progressing rapidly Outside of Chicago
there is great demand for petition blanks
and thousands of copies have been sent
to many cities and towns in Iowa, Colorado,
California, Missouri, Ohio, Pennsylvania,
New York, and other States New York,
alone will furnish some fifty Thousand
signatures to the petition, while in Boston
a great many signatures Oh prominent citi-
zens will be obtained. In Chicago the num-
Der of signatures is large, most of the
members of the various labor organizations
having signed the petition.
The defense fund Of the Anarchists has
been considerably increased since the an
nouncement of the decision of the Supreme
Court A subscription in favor of the An
archists has been started in England
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ERENoA puELIsT.s pEEIANcE.

Give my knife and dirk
for my bloody work;
Give me my trusty Colt,
Pinned with thunderbolt;
Peace let me roar:
Give me my musket tall
Fit for cannon ball,
/ viii go forth to-day
Ready to shoot to shoot and slay;
Crazy for gore!
Let me not be deferred,
He aust be massacred:
Him 1 will periorate,
Quarter and decimate;
Him viii Stay!
Fierce I have challenged him,
Now I will 90 and swim
In red sea Of gore
StreasDtng from every pore
Let me away!
Ha! what is that you say?
His seconds ask delay?
Have the unm ensured face
Task for another pace
Heavens what a sight?
No, not an inch I'll give,
Let the base recreant live,
Put up my dirk and knife,
Give the poor serf his life
No, Won't fight
IS. W. Floss, In Detroit Free Press
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ENGLISH TAILOR cos on displaying many
TUNE, WITH SKIRTS coquetries. They are
IN ROMAN STRIPE high, open, long and
short single and doub breasted to suit the
wearer
One of the most stylish coats exhibited
is one of dark, blue pilot cloth, turned
back each side with regerS of the same, the
edges of these and the tNrn over collar
and cuffs outlined with Ging1e piping of
gold OF silver braid The garniture is far
richer than the snowy and elaborate silver
embroideries Worn last spring. Polish
coats of Roman red pilot cloth, and those
of red and black. striped Persian wool,
made in tailor style, are worn over black
skirts of every description C. Fl.
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NEW YORK, Oct 5.-Advices from Rio
Janeiro, dated September 10, state that
medical opinions have been published there
to the effect that Emperor Dom Pedro will
never again be able to attend to public aft
fairs, through that progressive failure of his
intellect shown in his forgetfulness of re-
cent matters and names, which is due to
his malady, diabetes
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~------
blew Out the (.as-

CHICAGO Oct 5.-Two men named Moran,
brothers, from Dakota, en- route for Canada,
were found dead in their bed in the Massa-
soft House, this city, yesterday morning.
When retiring a5 night they blew out the
gas, instead of turning it of.